Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
3 pending office actions • 3 art units • 3 examiners • 0 of 3 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Intersect Ent International GmbH is currently managing 3 pending office actions in the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering technology area. These 3 actions are spread across 3 distinct examiners and 3 distinct art units. This indicates that the company's active filings are diverse enough to require review by 3 different technical groups. By engaging with 3 different art units, the company is navigating multiple sets of examination guidelines and technical standards simultaneously. This distribution suggests that the company's active filings cover a broad spectrum of the Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering field.
The busiest examiner, NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC, is responsible for 1 pending office action. Because the total number of pending office actions is 3, the workload is distributed among the examiners. Each examiner handles 1 action, meaning no individual examiner has a dominant influence over the current pending portfolio. For the practitioner, this distribution requires a strategy that accounts for the different perspectives of 3 separate examiners. The outcome of the portfolio is not tied to a single point of review but is instead subject to the findings of multiple individuals across the patent office.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 3 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 2 (67%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (33%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 1 | 52.6% | +40.6% |
| WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 1 | 63.0% | +29.1% |
| ANDERSON II, JAMES M | 1 | 75.7% | +10.0% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18212744 | Systems and Methods for Sinus Access | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 36d overdue |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17702309 | REGISTRATION METHOD AND SETUP | ANDERSON II, JAMES M | 126d overdue |
| 18525050 | Sensor Carrier | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 70d overdue |
| 18212744 | Systems and Methods for Sinus Access | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 36d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3797 | 1 |
| 3993 | 1 |
| 2425 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18525050 | Sensor Carrier | NGUYEN, HIEN NGOC | 3797 | §103Other | Final Rejection | 70d overdue | Pending | Nov 30, 2023 |
| 18212744 | Systems and Methods for Sinus Access | WILLIAMS, CATHERINE SERKE | 3993 | §103§112Other | Final Rejection | 36d overdue | Pending | Jun 22, 2023 |
| 17702309 | REGISTRATION METHOD AND SETUP | ANDERSON II, JAMES M | 2425 | §103 | Final Rejection | 126d overdue | Pending | Mar 23, 2022 |
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